בײַוואַלן

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Yiddish

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Etymology

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Probably a calque of English by-election. By surface analysis, בײַ (bay) +‎ וואַלן (valn).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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בײַוואַלן • (bayvaln) pl

  1. (politics) by-election

References

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  • Schaechter-Viswanath, Gitl; Glasser, Paul (2016), “בײַוואַלן”, in Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press
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